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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

To create the conditions for healthy vibrant communities, we need full employment and a livable wage; safe, affordable housing; access to healthy food; well-functioning public transportation; safe, appropriate K–12 education; and access to routine and preventive health services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Why cuts to global AIDS relief threaten U.S. health, economic growth, and physical security

HEALTHBEAT

Journalists and foreign policy experts have written extensively about the suffering caused by the Trump administrations decision to halt food, health care, and other forms of assistance to some of the poorest people in the world. physical security PEPFAR is a critical tool of health diplomacy, strengthening U.S.